The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-03-04
WISCONSIN LEGISLATURE.

SENATE-A bill was passed on the ed to au-.
thorize the expenditure of the State appropria-
ton for the instruction of deaf mutes according
TO the number Of pupils contained in any
| school The Assembly bill was concurred in
abolishing the State Board of Immigration.
AssEMBIY-Bills were passed making any
architect punishable by fine of S25 to 800 for
| constructing any workshop or public building
on faulty plan or without fire-escape and
doors; authorizing sherifs to give reward Of
500 for the apprehension of any person whose
crime would require five years imprisonment
A resolution calling for an investigation of the
appropriation made for new buildings at the
State University was considered and referred
to the Committee on Education.
SENATE-The resolution calling for an inves-
tigation of the transactions of the Board of
University Regents in the construction Of the
new buildings at the State University was
adopted on the 23d The bill providing for the
publication of 1900 copies of railroad maps of
the State was concurred in.
ASsEMBLY--A large number Of petitions were
presented against the bill abolishing the con-
tract system of convict labor. The bill author
izing towns to appoint town attorneys at sal
airy OF $3.50 year was indefinitely postponed. A
resolution was adopted requiring that all dead.
head bills be reported back BIZ March TO-
SENATE-The Joint resolution proposing an
amendment to the constitution abolishing the
prison-labor contract system was adopted on
the oath. The bills providing that salaries of
district attorneys in counties of eight thousand
and upward be not less than 81, 600, and restor-
ing capital punishment for murder, were in
definitely postponed.
AssEMBLY-The bill requiring passenger-cars
TO be heated by other appliances than stoves
was reported unfavorably by the Committee on
Railroads. A substitute for the resolution pro-
hlblt1ng State officials from accepting railway
passes was reported, which makes it the duty
OF railway companies haVl.a lines in the State
to issue passes to Judges of the Supreme Court
and of Circuit Courts, to State officers and mem
bers 1of the Legislature on all lines in the
State, and that such passes shall be used only
when such persons are travelling on official
business. The bill authorizing the organization
OF Insurance companies in cities and villages
where at least twenty five men with an aggre-
gate property of S25, 900 desire to form mutual
insurance company, was passed.
SENATE-Bills we're passed on the 25th to ap-
propriate $4,000 to put roof on Science Hall;
to provide for an assistant State Librarian; to
create the Fifteenth and Sixteenth wards in
Milwaukee; appropriating s., 600 for each of the
years 1887 and 1888 to the Wisconsin Dairy
mems Association, and to incorporate the city
OF Onalaska. Adjourned to the evening of the
2Sth
AssEMBLY-Bills were killed appropriating
$4,000 to George Wilson, who was wrongfully
imprisoned for murder he never committed
for twenty years and finally pardoned, and pro-
hibiting druggists from selling liquors to be
drank on the premises unless sold on ply
sicians prescription. After a long debate res
olution was adopted to investigate the expend-
itures OF the Board of State University REGENTS
in the construction of Science Hail. Adjourned
to the evening of the 28th.
SENATE-A memorial to Congress was
adopted on the 2Sth asking for the prevention
of immigration to the United States of the de-
fective, dependent and criminal classes of for
eign sountries. A bill was passed permitting
persons to organize mutual loan and building
corporations. and exempting capital stock,
securities and mortgages of such company from
taxation.
Reconnaissance bills were concurred in re-
curing local insurance companies to publish
notices of changes in articles, etc., in three
local papers instead of all in the county where
business is to be transacted; increasing sher-
ifs mileage in conveying insane patients to
and from asylums from five to ten cents, and to
allow religious, educational literary or charita-
BILE corporations to hold stock in other corpora
tons.